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Mona, her man Theo and daughter Hanna live in an idyllic villa on the outskirts. When the attractive daughter of a friend comes to visit, the problems and fragility of the small family are revealed and a tragic downward spiral continues.
A young IT worker is in search of meaning in his life as he struggles to fulfill his dreams.
On the eve of her cotillion ball, a young Black girl grapples with her queer identity and questions her purity.
Giulio, a skilled salesman, father and caring husband, suddenly finds himself homeless, without money, and without a family, when his wife Annalisa asks for a divorce, forcibly removing him from his children with false accusations of violence and drugs.
Meg, a millennial painter with ADHD, navigates her life on the way to a job interview. What starts as a simple task turns into a race against the clock as she encounters society’s stigmas, unlikely allies, and challenges from her past.
An introspective poetic vision of the relationship of people who experience a supernatural event and approach it by resorting to their most primitive instincts. An allegory about life, death and love with music by Bach, Beethoven and Wagner.
Landlady Fränzi is renting her secluded alpine hut for the first time and prepares everything in minute detail. However, due to an overbooking four guests arrive instead of two: local politician Erich with his marketing expert Urs and young influencer Jennifer with her boyfriend Nirosh. They all need to weather out a snow storm raging outside the hut and soon find themselves confronted by violence with no way out.
A couple navigates their cross-cultural relationship.
Love in a concentration camp. A young Jewish gay man, Otto, is protected by a "kapo" (a fellow prisoner) and an SS guard who unexpectedly ends up saving his life.
An Afghan war veteran looks to live the quiet life as a small-town police officer. That changes when a group of Russian hackers moves to the area, intending to disrupt the Canadian elections.
A passive mother who dedicates her life to her husband and children. Stuck in daily, repetitive, mundane chores, she has made herself as little as she possibly could. When a magic trick goes wrong at her 4-year-old son's birthday party, an avalanche of coincidental absurdities befalls the family. The magician turns her husband, the authoritarian father, into a chicken. The mother is now forced to come to the fore and take care of the family while moving heaven and earth to bring her husband back. As she tries to survive, she goes through a rough and absurd transformation.
When two strangers cross paths while trying to escape their past, they form an unlikely music partnership that will take them running across rural Australia.
Heavy rain has been hitting the facades of Tokyo. Masahiro is alone in his office. He calls his wife, who doesn’t seem to be excited about her husband’s overtime. He falls asleep on the computer during his monotonous paperwork. He has a nightmare. When he wakes up, nothing seems the way it used to be.
Webcast special episode of PROBE: Case Files advertising Arcbeatle Press's PROBE anthology novel of the same name, which was released shortly after.
A woman must confront the darkness in her own home in this short horror film.
After her son gets imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, a mother races against time to gather evidence to prove that he is not guilty.
Pierrot is serene and has no fear of his premature death. He asks his childhood friend Jacques to help him end his days well. This unusual approach will lead the two friends to a peaceful end.
This new work was made especially for the room by Jenn Nkiru, a British-born filmmaker of Nigerian descent. Her videos celebrate the vibrant creativity and speculative vision of the African diaspora while exploring what she calls, "cosmic archaeology," a potentially mystical connection to history through visual memory.
Hans suffers from schizophrenia. He is convinced that a certain group of people wants to take over the rule of water on Earth and that this group is persecuting him because he has discovered their secret. He is convinced that he is on the verge of uncovering a major conspiracy and that he can save the world with his research. Hans has been and continues to be treated for his illness and is on medication. In the waiting room of his psychotherapist, he has met Marie, a sympathetic young woman who has gained his confidence. Hans hopes Marie will help him uncover the alleged conspiracy and delve deeper into his theory, but Marie is interested in something else. She wants to know the broken, destroyed parts of Hans' personality. She persuades him to stop taking his medication, driving him deeper and deeper into his delusion.
Elio meets his ex-wife Maddalena to complete the divorce, but one detail leads him to come to terms with his feelings.
Struggling to fill the void left by her missing cat, a woman has a queer encounter with an unexpected visitor. When the cat returns, the visitor is abandoned to a life of profound invisibility, which prompts a macabre test of their social obscurity.
When Jeannie lost her father, he is waked at home, his pine box laid across two chairs in the parlour; he has long lived inside a box. Based on the poem by Agnes Walsh comes a story of finding a use for everything.
A lost soldier rescues a prisoner of war.
As three women deal with tough times in their romantic relationships, they learn to take control of their personal lives and stand up for themselves.
14-year-old Ahmad is the breadwinner for his fatherless family. At his mother’s request, they rent a farm, but human bones are found, disturbing their plan. A challenging debut feature.
Sae is quite nasty towards her mother. Life is not easy during puberty. But what if something bad suddenly happened?
This is a story of two individuals, karthik & ria. Karthik who was very passionate about films and trying hard to make that as his carrier. ria who loves karthik & left her house with him & supports karthik in every single step to reach his roal.
In the midst of directing a film rehearsal and the departure of his partner, a homesick student filmmaker living abroad reconnects with his family through a phone call.
Lara feels trapped in a world she no longer understands. Suffocated, she finds an escape in her childhood dreams and fantasies, but can she remain in this imaginary world forever or will reality prevail and force her to wake up?
When coming out to his traditional parents, Sid uses his time machine to reset the day trying to make sure everything goes perfect.
Smack bang in the middle of nowhere (or was it somewhere on the legendary Route 66?) two women are thrown together by chance. Stranded tourist Jasmin stumbles out of her unhappy marriage and finds herself at Brenda’s remote cafe and motel. Ordinarily, no one would choose to stay at the Bagdad Cafe but in the dust and isolation, unexpected and extraordinary friendships begin to blossom. The lost are found as individuals transform into an eclectic community bound by music, magic and some very strong coffee.
A young man performs 'pranayama' sitting against a bleak wall. We observe him through a frame that seems to be connected to him in some way. As we go on to witness the nature of the frame, will the images presented to us be able to convey his intentions, thoughts, and ultimately, his fate? This experimental feature film is comprised of 7 parts of black and white imagery with no sound at all.
Laura lacks direction in life, but when she meets the carefree Andreas one fateful night, she learns a great deal about herself and who she grows up to be.
Marios, a 12 year old boy, on his way to school, finds out something utterly unexpected.
"Julian runs away from his Problems and hides in his Bubble, until his emotions finally get him."
Camila, a 16-year-old teenager, and her Sister Pía, 11, after the tragic death of their parents, roam the streets of a small town in the Ecuadorian highlands, they will have to search for anything to eat. However, that will not be their biggest problem.
Based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem "Bridal Ballad". A lady's first husband dies in combat. She gets remarried but is fearful that having done so will come back to haunt her.
When the young photographer Simon sets out to photograph a motif that has has been on his mind for a long time, he is hit by the tour-bus of an overtired punk band. Concise scenes from his life appear before his inner eye: memories of things past, habitual actions and schemes of the present, narratives and fictions.
"Vanity of vanities, everything is vanity" says the bible. The word flows from the tongue naming the pleasure of earthly life and judging it as beautiful, but shallow and useless; vanity is a deadly sin. A female sin. The man painted the woman, put a mirror in his hands and called it vanity. The woman in representation admires herself, but the one who really admires her body is the artist. Whose vanity? In VANITAS, we re-divide the woman in our bodies, showing the depth of what is palpable. If the Father's temple hides after death, clean and perfect, we reject them. We welcome Mother Nature in us, life-death in a perpetual sacred cycle, also honoring her dark face. You may wish to reach heaven, but it is on earth that your knees fall.
Britain's first Muslim war heroine is tested to the limit as she faces her brutal captors in Nazi-occupied Paris for the last time.
Summer. Village. Yakutia. A single mother moves to a big city in search of a better life and leaves her deaf-mute teenage son with his grandmother. The grandmother tries to improve relations with her grandson, but he does not accept her and misses his mother. The gift given by the grandmother changes everything. The deaf-mute guy begins to communicate with the world through the lens of the camera.
Trapp/E.D sheds light on an internal struggle and ultimate acceptance of oneself
After the divorce lawsuit, Jia Ting and Ming Kai want to have brain surgery to completely forget each other. While preparing the materials for the surgery, which include the objects representing their love, hatred, relatives and friends, they realize that the difference between them is this increasingly divided memory...
El hilo dorado (2021) is a Spanish social drama directed and written by Tomás Aceituno. The film follows Cristina, a young lawyer who takes on the case of grandparents seeking to regain custody of their granddaughter placed in foster care. As the case unfolds, Cristina confronts memories of her own childhood spent in a juvenile center. The narrative is inspired by real events and was filmed in Linares, Jaén, Aceituno's hometown. The cast includes Cristina Mediero, Paco Roma, Eva Pedraza, Amanda Ferrer, and others. The film's main theme, also titled "El hilo dorado," is performed by renowned flamenco singer Estrella Morente.
'Intended Parents' is a short film about a Black millennial couple, seeking to expand their family through surrogacy. With one partner identifying as a transgender woman, the couple (Alexandra Grey as "Robyn" and Lawrence Locke as "Anthony") find themselves continously educating or being imprisoned by outdated traditions and opinions from loved ones. While the film explores the intersections of love, gender, surrogacy, acceptance, and desperation; the powerful couple aims to deflate multiple negative stigmas as they prepare for the life-alternating roller coaster of fertility and surrogacy.
In a fishing village where pawning children is the norm, Sonia, a 14-year-old girl full of dreams, is thrown into the pawnship slavery to pay off the debt of her poor parents. After months of servitude under a tyrannical employer, Sonia is forcedly pawned back into labor to pay for the expenses of her father’s funeral. When will this cycle of debt bondage end? Is a bright future even possible for Sonia?
Tall, dark, handsome, and paid, Ozias, could have any woman he wants... and he does, in addition to his beautiful wife and family at home, until his promiscuous ways catch up to him.
The road can be long when allowing yourself to love again. Shy and self-effacing Léo leads a solitary existence, but an encounter with the confident Thom turns his world upside down.
When his beloved daughter runs away with an engkanto, a lonely old man attempts to summon his daughter back home through her favorite dish.
The knight wanders through the enchanted forests to fight the dragon, defeat the black queen and understand which of these characters he is.
After an unremarkable semester one, several university hall residents try to process the idea of connectedness, fleeting relationships, love, and the future through the month-long ennui and languor of winter vacation stay.
THE VISIT is an intimate stop-motion short film about a young girl’s growing-up years and her relationship with her incarcerated father.
The story of how a son gets a second chance to find a mother. About how war generates only human grief and creates unhealed wounds. The hero of the picture, 40-year-old Walter, left his native land for several years and works as a foreman at one of the Moscow construction projects. He builds not only houses in Russia, but also tries to build his new life. However, one day a phone call from his homeland breaks all his plans. Walter learns that the hostilities have reached the village in the mountains where his mother lives.
Christian, a young man from the city, travels to a town in Zaragoza, Spain of his recently-deceased father to throw his ashes and give a final farewell. He arrives to find the town abandoned years ago by everyone, leaving their houses to slowly crumble into memory, in search of better opportunities. Yet, one resident remains. An eccentric and wild man who has chosen to live alone in nature, to protect the remains of the village from the pillagers that often drive by in search of valuable artefacts. Their encounter will force Christian to confront his father's identity and perhaps finally understand why his father was the way he was.
When a good person turns into a tyrant due to circumstances.